Environmentalists seeking to curb thedeaths of an estimated 53,000 sea turtles each year from gettingcaught in commercial shrimp nets off the southeastern UnitedStates sued federal regulators on Wednesday for strongerprotections.

* Five nations set moratorium on fishing near North Pole * No fish there now, but thaw is drawing stocks north * Deal delayed from 2014 because of tensions over Ukraine By Alister Doyle OSLO, July 16 (Reuters) - The United States, Russia andother Arctic nations signed an agreement deal on Thursday to bartheir fishing fleets from fast-thawing seas around the NorthPole, an agreement delayed more than a year by tensions overUkraine.

The United States, Russia and other Arctic nations signed an agreement on Thursday to bar their fishing fleets from fast-thawing seas around the North Pole, an agreement delayed more than a year by tensions over Ukraine.The accord, also signed in Oslo by the ambassadors of Canada, Norway and Denmark, is a response to global warming, which is melting sea ice in the central Arctic Ocean, an area the size of the Mediterranean.

(Removes superfluous word from first paragraph.) * Five nations set moratorium on fishing near North Pole * No fish there now, but thaw is drawing stocks north * Deal delayed from 2014 because of tensions over Ukraine By Alister Doyle OSLO, July 16 (Reuters) - The United States, Russia andother Arctic nations signed an agreement on Thursday to bartheir fishing fleets from fast-thawing seas around the NorthPole, an agreement delayed more than a year by tensions overUkraine.

Reported in Scientific American, This Week in World War I: March 20, 1915 The report published in this issue from a century ago delivers a robustly optimistic outlook on the Allied attack on Turkish territory at the entrance to the waterway between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean: "If the great Mahan were living to-day [...]

Reported in Scientific American, This Week in World War I: March 20, 1915 The report published in this issue from a century ago delivers a robustly optimistic outlook on the Allied attack on Turkish territory at the entrance to the waterway between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean: "If the great Mahan were living to-day [...]

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